Inki and the Minah Bird
| Inki and the Minah Bird | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Charles M. Jones |
| Story by | Tedd Pierce |
| Produced by | Leon Schlesinger |
| Starring | Mel Blanc |
| Edited by | Treg Brown |
| Music by | Carl W. Stalling |
| Animation by | Robert Cannon Shamus Culhane Ken Harris Rudy Larriva Ben Washam A.C. Gamer |
| Layouts by | John McGrew |
| Backgrounds by | Gene Fleury Bernyce Polifka |
| Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 7 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Inki and the Minah Bird is a 1943 Merrie Melodies short directed by Chuck Jones. The short features Inki and was released on November 13, 1943.
Plot
[edit]Inki is an African young boy hunting small animals with a spear. One creature he briefly tries following is a minah bird, which walks across the scene with a hopping gait. Unlike Inki and all the other creatures in the cartoon, the minah bird shows no emotional reactions or changes in facial expression regardless of circumstances. Inki then encounters a fearsome lion. The lion then chases the boy, who briefly winds up in the lion's mouth, but escapes with the lion's teeth, revealed to be a set of dentures. The lion recovers its teeth and chases after Inki until distracted by the minah bird, which the lion then pursues. In a twisting blurred fight, the bird triumphs over the lion, and in the last scene the lion's large dentures are shown now in the minah bird's mouth.
Home media
[edit]- VHS
- Inki & the Minah Bird (released by Troy Gold in 1988) - re-released by Burbank Video in 1991[1][2]
- Kartoon Klassics Volume 10 (released by Viking Video Classics in 1986) - re-released by Burbank Video in 1991
- Laserdisc
- The Golden Age of Looney Tunes: Volume 3, Side 3 (released by MGM/UA Home Video)
- DVD
- Cartoon Craze Presents: Donald Duck / Woody Woodpecker: Pantry Panic (released by Digiview Productions)[3]
Notes and bans
[edit]Inki and the Minah Bird was the only Inki short to fall into the public domain; all the rest in the series are under copyright.[a]
Because this cartoon portrays stereotypes of Indian and black cultures, it is no longer included in USA television packages, along with the other four Inki shorts.[10] It includes scenes or situations that portray potentially offensive, negative or otherwise socially unacceptable content which may be perceived as fostering stereotypes of African heritage people.
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "Inki & the Minah Bird". Amazon.
- ↑ Viking Entertainment, Inc. (1988). Inki & the Minah Bird. Viking Entertainment. OCLC 37665460.
- ↑ Cartoon craze presents: Donald Duck, Woody Woodpecker : Pantry panic. DigiView. 2004. OCLC 244145963.
- ↑ Jones, Chuck (November 13, 1943). "Inki and the Minah Bird". Leon Schlesinger Studios. Retrieved January 19, 2021.
- ↑ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Inki And The Minah Bird (Leon Schlesinger Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved January 19, 2021.[dead link]
- ↑ "Inki and the Minah Bird". Mubi. Retrieved January 19, 2021.
- ↑ "Inki and the Minah Bird (1942)". BFI. Archived from the original on January 27, 2021. Retrieved January 19, 2021.
- ↑ "Inki and the Minah Bird". Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on January 27, 2021. Retrieved January 19, 2021.
- ↑ Hartley, Steven (June 20, 2017). "Likely Looney, Mostly Merrie: 416. Inki and the Minah Bird (1943)". Likely Looney, Mostly Merrie. Retrieved January 19, 2021.
- ↑ "Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Inki and the Minah Bird". www.toonopedia.com. Retrieved January 19, 2021.
External links
[edit]- Inki and the Minah Bird at IMDb
- Watch Inki and the Minah Bird in fully restored HD at Laugh Bureau Vintage
- Watch Inki and the Minah Bird on YouTube in the highest-quality remaster with the correct aspect ratio.